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Is legal-project management gaining traction in Spain? If Anna Marra has any say in the matter it will. Anna recently published an article in Lawyer Press, an on-line, Spanish-language publication for lawyers. I don't read Spanish, but could make out most of the article using Google Translate. The article provides a brief introduction to LPM, why lawyers should use it and how they can deploy it it and apply it to their daily activities. Anna also mentioned in a recent discussion posted to the PMI LPM Community Group on LinkedIn that she is writing a book on the subject.Related articlesLPM 2012 and...

The blog Just Below the Law highlighted E-Discovery Project Management as an alternative legal career, interviewing Michael Boland, Senior Project Manager in Winston & Strawn's E-discovery Services Group, in a post last week. Read it at:http://justbelowthelaw.com/2011/09/15/alternative-career-feature-e-discovery/#comment-198Related articlesTop 10 Best Jobs To Have As A "Legal Professional" (cyberesq.wordpress.com)Book Review: How to Land a Great Job in Litigation Support (legalprojectmanagement.info)Transitioning from Document Review to E-discovery Project Management (legalprojectmanagement.info)Using Legal Project Management to Extend an E-discovery Practice Group to a Firm-wide Competency (legalprojectmanagement.info)LPM Career Advice: Getting Back in the Game (legalprojectmanagement.info)ILTA 2011 - Legal Project Management Staff Roles Survey (legalprojectmanagement.info)E-Discovery Project Management: ILTA White Paper on Legal Project Management,...

Juicy bite-sized morsels of legal-project management from February and March 2011. RECENT BUZZ ON E-DISCOVERY CERTIFICATIONS With the Association of Certified Electronic Discovery Specialists's announcement that hit has awarded its first batch of CEDS certifications, e‑discovery certification has once again started generating buzz in the blawgosphere. I wrote about my experiences taking the test in post to this blog. In the second post to his new blog, Rip Van Winkle of Litigation Support, "Frank" discusses whether e‑discovery certifications are "really worth it." His conclusion: [S]ome employers will take the certs seriously, some employers will not, but make the education...

I realize a few weeks have gone by with no posts here. Besides the normal rush and pressures of client projects, there have been a number of other work and personal projects that have put this blog, and my social media activities in general, on hold. First, I've been busy helping to launch AbsoluteProof® WebSeal,™ a Web-evidence collection, integrity preservation, and authenticity service, designed to support the increase in Web-related litigation and investigation activities. AbsoluteProof WebSeal is powered by AbsoluteProof, Surety's patented, digital timestamping methodology, and is delivered to the market as a litigation-support managed service by Global Colleague.I co-authored an article on...

Juicy bite-sized morsels of legal-project management from the week ending Saturday, January 29, 2011. Hubpages now has a page on legal-project management. Not surprisingly, it is a disappointment and I couldn't help but to rant about Hubpages and its ilk in a separate post. Brussels-based consultancy FrahanBlondé discusses how to use legal-project management to monitor budgets in a post to their Legal Management blog. The focus of their advice is the power of decomposition, the process of breaking down your work into more measurable and manageable components. The Association of Corporate Counsel has not made its "Project Management 101"...

Juicy bite-sized morsels of legal-project management from the week ending Saturday, January 22, 2011. wiseGEEK answers "What is Legal Project Management" in an article written by C. Mitchell and edited by John Allen. Overall, I think it is a good summary, but I don't quite agree with the following statement from the article: "There is no single definition of legal project management, as the phrase describes more of a practice philosophy than something tangible to implement." While there are many competing LPM approaches, most focus on providing a set of best practices, methodologies, and tools to implement. In a...

I took a few weeks off from social networking and blogging over the holidays. Here are some legal-project-management articles, posts, and news items I came across since the end of 2010. An article by Gina Passarella in the Legal Intelligencer highlights the career value of legal-project-management in an article discussing lateral movement of e-discovery talent in AmLaw 100 law firms. In a Technolawyer Community Technofeature article, Donna Seyle discusses the importance of project management workspaces and deal rooms in an article listing useful technologies to help lawyers provide their clients with fixed-fee billing. A summary of the e-mailed newsletter article is available on the Technolawyer...

Juicy bite-sized morsels of legal-project management from the week ending Saturday, December 11, 2010. In a post to her At the Intersection blog, Pamela Woldow spreads some holiday cheer by discussing Darwin's observation that in nature only the most fit survive¡ "Fit" means those organisms best able to adapt to changing conditions. She notes that law firms are beginning to adapt to the changing profession and no longer hears law firm partners claim that legal-project management is "a flash in the pan."   Now, particularly in major firms with major clients, partners no longer ask for whom the bell...

Juicy bite-sized morsels of legal-project management from the week ending Saturday, December 04, 2010. Gerry Riskin, co-founder of Edge International, advises Indian law firms to adopt legal-project management in an interview on the Bar & Bench News Network: I would advise those Indian firms who do not currently have robust programs underway to learn and adopt the best practices of the best managed firms around the world that they need to begin now or risk being left far behind by those Indian law firms who have been doing just this for a number of years. In every market place...

Juicy bite-sized morsels of legal-project management from the week ending Saturday, November 27, 2010. Jill Black discusses the difference between project management and legal-project management in a post to the Onit blog. Onit has also recently released an excellent video introducing its cloud-based LPM platform. Janice Block, General Counsel for Kaplan Higher Education, argues that project management is vital for lawyers in an article for Inside Counsel. Shy Alter, CEO at ii3 Inc., argues that "AFAs combined with better matter (project) management can and should provide a framework for decreasing and managing risks. Not simply shifting the risk from...